Chuck Friedl represents District 3 members on the Southside Electric Cooperative Board of Directors. He has served as the board’s treasurer since 2017.
Mr. Friedl, who lives in Dinwiddie County, has been a SEC member since 1977. He joined the Cooperative board in 2008.
“I believe one should share their knowledge, skills and experience with individuals and organizations within their community to help make it a better place in which to live and work. By serving on the SEC Board of Directors, I am able to share ideas and influence decisions that will provide high quality, reliable electric service to its members at a competitive cost. This service is essential to its members as they seek to maintain and/or improve their quality of life,” Mr. Friedl says.
Mr. Friedl retired in 2003 after a lengthy career in education. He served as a teacher, principal and director of vocational education in Louisa County before spending 27 years as principal of the Rowanty Technical Center in Prince George County. He also worked as an adjunct instructor of marketing and statistics at Fort Lee. Mr. Friedl specialized in corn and soybean production while farming in Iowa and Virginia for several years.
He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in management from the University of Iowa in 1968 and Master of Science in management from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1971. He has also completed all of the coursework for a doctorate in industrial education from Iowa State University and finished the course requirements for a Virginia Department of Education license in school administration and as a school superintendent through the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.
Mr. Friedl is a Credentialed Cooperative Director and has received other certificates for his work on the SEC board and in board leadership.
Mr. Friedl has served on the Dinwiddie County Board of Zoning Appeals and Dinwiddie County School Board. He is a member of the Ocran United Methodist Church Administrative Board and United Methodist Men, Sutherland Ruritan Club and the Southside Opportunity Fund Board of Directors. He is a former Dixie Youth baseball coach in Dinwiddie County.
He and wife Marsha, a former teacher, have a daughter, Stacey, and a son, Christopher.
Mr. Friedl’s interests include antique cars and farm equipment, building design and construction, and traveling.